Our Actions
Our promise for a brighter world
We are taking action to ensure our Promise is fulfilled and driving tangible solutions to create change. Malnutrition Labels, an experiential initiative, was designed to spark conversation and shed light on the gaps in nutrition access, affordability, and acceptability. The Growing Distance, a short film, brings to life these critical gaps we see as barriers to good nutrition for all.
Musa Fabric
As part of our Dole Promise towards zero fruit loss and reduced landfills necessary for carbon neutrality, Dole Sunshine Company has partnered with social enterprise Musa Fabric to turn banana waste into fibres of purpose through a partnership creating fashion products, woven by marginalized communities. We believe that by putting the prosperity of people and the planet at the heart of everything we do, the sun shines brighter for us all.
Malnutrition Labels Food Waste
After a large-than-life activation earlier in the year, projecting Malnutrition Labels on the sides of New York, Los Angeles and Baltimore buildings, Dole and City Harvest are getting the word out in a small but most relevant space, New York’s trash bins. By presenting New Yorkers with this information, we hope to #ChangeTheFacts and reduce food waste in New York City and across the country.
The Growing Distance
We believe good nutrition is a human right. That’s why we’re striving to put healthy food within reach for all. Join us to build a brighter future and learn how we’re sparking conversation and action to help close the gaps in nutrition access, affordability, and acceptability.
Malnutrition Labels
Malnutrition isn’t specific to one city, one region, or one country. It doesn’t discriminate based on ethnicity or age or gender identity or socioeconomic status. We believe good nutrition is a human right. Join us to change the facts.
NFT Collaboration
Using Sunshine for All as inspiration, ‘Hungry Artist’ David Datuna has created a series of NFT art pieces that bring awareness to nutrition inequality worldwide. Join us, David and the Boys and Girls Club in taking a bite out of hunger.
We are promising people, planet and prosperity at the heart of everything we do to make the sun shine brighter for all
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Musa Fabric
As part of our Dole Promise towards zero fruit loss and reduced landfills necessary for carbon neutrality, Dole Sunshine Company has partnered with social enterprise Musa Fabric to turn banana waste into fibres of purpose through a partnership creating fashion products, woven by marginalized communities. We believe that by putting the prosperity of people and the planet at the heart of everything we do, the sun shines brighter for us all.
Better-for-you Refreshments
We followed our All Natural Seasons™ Tropical Fruit launch with a further zero-sugar new product: Dole All Natural Sparkling Fruit Drink. Delivering on the same promise, this affordably-priced fruit drink is packed with vitamin C and contains no added sugar, no preservatives and no artificial ingredients.
Clean Hands Against COVID
Our sustainability and engineering teams have turned colourful metal drums into touch-free handwashing sinks. Placed in strategic spots, these facilities – with free soap and demonstrations on proper handwashing – help in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Clean Sanitation for All
Better sanitation is essential for preventing diseases and avoiding malnutrition, particularly in sick children. As such, we’re supporting the The Zero Open Defecation program in the Philippines. Since 2014, the program has helped to install 1,810 hygienic toilets in homes, raising living standards for families throughout the country.
Covid-19 Isolation Unit
In August 2020, we teamed up with Howard Hubbard Memorial Hospital to create a state-of-the-art COVID-19 isolation unit. This world-class facility has been able to provide critical help for over 250 people during the global pandemic.
Pandemic Help
Dole employees in the Philippines were quick to volunteer when the pandemic struck, assisting in building a COVID-19 test centre. They also offered support with training and capacity-building to ensure that local personnel could carry out COVID-19 PCR testing. We provided donations to help and offered the use of our own PCR machine.
Meet our Partners
As we deliver on these promises we realise that we may not have all the answers today, and we humbly believe that achieving a sustainable future for all cannot be done alone. Our Dole promise is therefore underpinned by key partnerships like Solidaridad and Rocana, to innovate, collaborate and approach key stakeholders across the value chain.
Solidaridad
An international civil society organisation with over fifty years of experience in creating fair and sustainable supply chains from producer to consumer across five continents. They are developing innovative solutions for healthy and sustainable food systems, ensuring that farmers and workers have a living income, influence over their destiny, and can produce in balance with nature. They are partnering with us to help create a sustainable sourcing and marketing model for fruits.
Forum for the Future
Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability non-profit who has helped shape our promise to keep it forward looking and robust in its commitments.
No Kid Hungry
No child should go hungry in America. But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 4 kids could face hunger this year. No Kid Hungry is working to end childhood hunger by helping to launch and improve programs that give all kids the healthy food they need to thrive. This is a problem we know how to solve. No Kid Hungry is a campaign of Share Our Strength, an organisation committed to ending hunger and poverty. Join us at NoKidHungry.org
PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is an innovation and transformation consultancy firm that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world. We have partnered with PA to develop sustainable packaging that moves us towards our ambition of zero fossil-based plastic packaging.
Rocana
Rocana is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of mission-driven brands that focus on clean and functional nutrition. Partnering with them, we will identify investments in the right start-ups and products that will help improve access to good nutrition and reduce nutrition waste.
Future Food Asia
The Future Food Asia platform aims to accelerate open innovation in the Agri-Food Tech sectors across Asia pacific. With global warming changing our food landscape, Dole is proud to support Future Food Asia to foster Innovation and help build the future of food, creating a more equitable world for us all.
Future Food Network
Future Food Network is a platform and network sparking positive change in the global food system. They have committed to providing new innovations that allow increased access to nutrition.
Musa Fabric
As part of our Dole Promise towards zero fruit loss and reduced landfills necessary for carbon neutrality, Dole Sunshine Company has partnered with social enterprise Musa Fabric to turn banana waste into fibres of purpose through a partnership creating fashion products, woven by marginalized communities. We believe that by putting the prosperity of people and the planet at the heart of everything we do, the sun shines brighter for us all.
Grow
GROW is a global food and agriculture technology accelerator positioned at the nexus of industry and innovation in Southeast Asia. With a strong focus on delivering impact and sustainability to the regional food system, Dole is joining GROW to support Agri-Food tech start-ups and the local ecosystem through the Singapore Food Bowl program – continuing our mission to bring change and create positive systemic impact on food security.
Pinatex
Dole partners with Ananas Anam to turn pineapple plant leaves into a natural textile that is driving sustainable design, furthering its commitment to zero fruit loss by 2025. Ananas Anam’s Piñatex® is an innovative, vegan and natural alternative to leather made from sustainably sourced pineapple leaf fibres extracted from Dole’s harvested pineapple plant leaves.
Second Harvest Japan
Second Harvest Japan is one of Food banks in Japan which is registered by the Japan government as a non-profit organization. It aims to create a Food Safety Net in Japan.In order to do so, they deliver food to children’s homes, single-mother shelters, centers for the disabled as well as many other welfare organizations and individuals in need. It has been working to improve food security (Access to safe, nutritious food on a daily basis) while helping food industry companies deliver their food donations to people without enough food. Thus, their activities provide an alternative not to dispose food that is still safe for human consumption but cannot be sold on business.
FoodBytes!
Furthering our commitment to innovation and sustainability, Dole is a proud member of the FoodBytes! Pitch Program. Rabobank’s startup discovery platform that drives connections and collaboration between leading food and agriculture businesses, startups and investors who want to feed the world sustainably, working towards our goal of a healthier planet and people.
